During her career, Somaye has worked for various universities and civil society organizations such as War Child, United Nations, Utrecht University, Simavi, National Democratic Institute, ZOA, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Max Foundation, and Volunteer Activists to just name a few.
Majority of her clients have local partners who always request extra support for capacity building for fundraising; moreover, based on a new trend for localizing funding sources, the need for building capacity for these partners has only increased. Nevertheless, many of the organizations do not have the capacity (financially or otherwise) to train their local colleagues. Therefore, as a social enterprise believing in Impact First, Your Funding Network subscribes to One for One Model.
This means that for every purchase of Your Funding Network’s service by an organization, the same exact service is offered to a local partner of that organization in an in kind format. This practice is in line with the vision of Your Funding Network which is bringing about organizational sustainability for Civil Society Organizations & their Partners through financial stability.
An organizational sustainability which is a prerequisite for upscaling impact, is achieved through arranging certain conditions such as diversifying funding sources, increasing self-financing and creating institutional variety. Institutional variety is created both at the internal and external level where new ways of working for development are allowed and diverse sets of partnerships are developed. Therefore, through One for One model, Your Funding Network builds capacity for your organization and your partners to reach organizational sustainability to upscale your impact and play your role in achieving Sustainable Development Goals.
Your Funding Network partnership with 1%Club and Voor je Buurt as crowdfunding/crowdsourcing platforms facilitate this effort.
